Have the Alpha but it's too much going on for me. Feel like I spend more time messing with it than just enjoying the hunt. So what are your favorite collars preferably with a beeper?Was thinking about getting the garmin pro 550 with beeper. For those that have beepers, is there a way to turn off the constant beep and just press a locator button or something? There are times I don't think I'd want the beeping but would still want to locate if I lost him in some tall grass or something. Thanks

I have a TT Pro 100 w/ a TT/Garmin beeper that I run on my dog.Been less than impressed w/ the beeper. Have trouble w/ it turning itself on & offw/out my input. The Pro 100 has been great, just don't like the beeper.I think the TT Pro 100 is great for "training" purposes but if I were to start all over at this point,I'd take a close look at the Dogtra 2500 as a stand alone hunting collar. It has a built in beeper on the collar.

On the Garmin beeper, you can run it in constant beep or in point only mode.And yes, you can turn it on or off from the transmitter to use as a locator too.Unfortunately, this is the way I mainly like to use mine & it's where I am having issues w/ it.Have a buddy that runs it w/ no problems but have also heard of others have the same issues I'm having.

Can't help on the beeper, I don't like em and don't use them. Sell the Alpha and get the Astro 320/DC40 and add it to a DT Systems h20 series E collar. We are running three like this (Astro 220 / DC40) the Astro 320 is pretty simple to use.

BTW, I got a lab a few months ago and don't have a collar for her yet. So another consideration I had in mind was that if I sell that Alpha I can get a 2 dog Pro 550 setup and add a beeper to one (for the vizsla) for the same price.